Chelsea Manning, a transgender US army soldier currently serving a 35-year-sentence for sharing government secrets with WikiLeaks, has been threatened with indefinite solitary confinement for several completely innocuous, scarily trumped-up “violations.”
The U.S. Navy is tripling the amount of maternity leave female sailors and Marines can take, bumping paid time off from six weeks to 18 weeks.
Today Adm. Michelle J. Howard became the first female – and first black – four-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy. Howard is used to be the first; according to the Washington Post she "was the first African-American woman to serve as a three-star officer in the U.S. military and command a U.S. Navy ship."
Currently, the U.S. military bans trans service members, forcing many to choose between hiding or leaving. But according to a newly released report, there is zero medical reason for the prohibition, and enforcing it is pricy and unfair. Not to mention, uh, bullshit.
Here's a nice window into the post-DADT American military: gay, lesbian and straight service members recently staged a drag show on Okinawa's Kadena Air Base. A few years ago, they might've faced disciplinary action or even been booted from the military; instead, they got a friendly writeup in Stars and Stripes, the…
Just days after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military would actually start punishing sexual assault rather than covering it up by gaslighting alleged victims with psychiatric diagnoses, two women who claim that they were raped while attending U.S. service academies sued military officials Friday…
Leave it to the U.S. military to find a way to make sexual assault even more awful than it already is. CNN reports that, according to testimony from a number of women across all branches of the armed forces, that women who allege sexual assault are often given a psychiatric diagnosis and discharge in the military's…
HELMAND, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 25: U.S. Marine Warrant Officer Samantha Munn from Eldon, Missouri serves up some turkey in the dining facility for the annual Thanksgiving meal at Camp Leatherneck. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
The first women to serve on U.S. submarines will begin officer training this summer. Although the cadets and their officers are excited about the historic change, not everyone is excited. Navy wives, worried about their men, have begun to complain.
[Wilmington, North Carolina; July 9. Image via Getty]
